#leverage quotes

[independent-fics]

Sophie: And how did you happen to meet your partners, Eliot? The woman you're dating now?

Eliot: In the ER getting stitched up after a fight.

Sophie: And the one before that?

Eliot: In the ER getting stitched up after a fight.

Sophie: And before that?

Eliot: *now furtively looking around to come up with some variation of an answer* uh… in a fight.

[the-cakemaker-of-kiev]

Nate: I just wanted you to see that I would never put any of you at risk if I wasn't willing to take the same chances myself.

Sophie: I love how you think that's comforting.

Leverage S3E5: The Double Blind Job

[tothethousandthline]

Nate Ford: Yeah, you seem pretty relaxed for a guy with a gun pointed at him.

Eliot Spencer: [looks at Hardison] Safety’s on.

Alec Hardison: Like I’m gonna fall for that.

Nate: No, no, actually he’s right, the safety is on.

[kitkatt0430]

Sophie - Are we being suspicious enough?

Eliot - *hands her an axe*

Sophie - Never mind.

[therodentqueen]

Nate: Let's go steal the Department of Defense! Parker: ..isn't that treason? Nate: ... Nate: We'll give it back.

[leverage-ot3]

Sometimes I think about the rundown job and how eliot was ready to take on the bioterrorist situation himself. his list of things to do was like

1. get parker and hardison on a plane out of here

2. ???

like, what did he think he was going to do? he couldn’t do the tech stuff no matter how much hardison has taught him over the years. he wouldn’t have been able to use that surveillance van for his life. he wouldn’t be able to follow all the clues and hunt down the target and stop him in time and he knew that. he had to know- he’s eliot goddamn spencer and he knows his capabilities more than anyone else. he knows what he’s capable of doing- what his strengths and failings are and everything in between.

he knew that he wouldn’t be able to do it himself, he knew. the chance was one in a million if he was lucky

he knew everyone in dc would die and he would die trying to take the bioterrorist down because at the end of the day he was going to fail

many, many people were going to die and he was going to be one of them.

things might be able to be prevented if parker and hardison stayed with him, the three of them working together like the well-oiled machine they are

but that wasn’t something eliot was willing to do, wasn’t a risk he was willing to take.

parker and hardison were the best con artists in the world. they were his world. and letting them be in this much danger was not something he was able to do. they weren’t going to die, he wouldn’t let them

if he died? so be it. if thousands of people died? an utter tragedy, and he desperately hoped that it wouldn’t come to that, but if it did, he was resigned

because parker and hardison weren’t going to die. he wouldn’t let them.

[dykeofthedirt]

[therulerofallpotatos]

Klaus: *dressed like a nun*

Diego: Ah. He's dressed that way because he's doing a con.

Five: What, you thought he was dressed like a nun for no reason?

Diego: It's Klaus.

Five: Fair enough.